The legislation to claw back more than $1 billion of previously approved funding for public broadcasters was led in the Senate by Missouri Republican Eric Schmitt.

By all accounts, forecasters provided adequate warning — the problem was communicating the danger to residents.

Congress has approved the Trump administration’s plan to clawback $1.1 billion for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting(CPB).The cuts will trickle down to local public radio stations, including Western North Carolina Window (WNCW) in Spindale and Blue Ridge Public Radio in downtown Asheville.

In Alaska, a public radio station general manager took a moment from a busy day warning her community about a possible tsunami for a special task — sending a text message to Sen.

The Trump administration pushed back Sunday on criticism of the National Weather Service's initial forecasting and its staffing levels ahead Central Texas' catastrophic flooding. The big picture: The storm that's killed at least 80 people brought federal cuts to NOAA's NWS under scrutiny after it emerged that two Texas NWS offices were missing key staff at the time,

The uproar and debate over the Trump administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation are complicating efforts for House lawmakers to vote on a spending cuts package. CBS News congressional correspondent Nikole Killion reports.